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From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nic Voge
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Cornell Study Skills Portfolio
Good question. I've never published on this. Perhaps the others have.
Nic
On Feb 8, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Mayfield, Linda wrote:
> What outstanding pedagogy! Have you published? I wish I had had
> been doing this in my strategic learning course--thanks for sharing.
> Linda
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> Subject: Re: Cornell Study Skills Portfolio
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> For what it's worth, I had a similar feature in the study strategies
> courses I taught at UC Berkeley. I called the course the "focal
> course" and students applied the approaches and techniques we worked
> on in class to them each week. They then turned in products or
> artifacts they had created (e.g. sets of notes, outlines, study
> guides, study plans) for comment. They used many of these as part of a
> midterm project that required each student to analyze a course,
> identify its learning challenges, and propose a principled strategic
> approach for meeting those challenges. In that sense, they were
> collected, but not for a portfolio.
> Best,
> Nic
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Helene Selco wrote:
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>> Hello Kryz Galetin,
>> Saundra McGuire has been in touch with me about your question about
>> the Study Skills Portfolio that I require of my students in my study
>> skills course, HE1115, at Cornell.
>> First let me mention that the course has evolved over the many years
>> that I have taught HE1115 at Cornell and a somewhat similar course
>> that I taught at Oberlin.
>> In both instances, however, I have always required students to
>> apply/practice strategies taught in the study skills course to a
>> "content area course" the student is enrolled in simultaneously with
>> the study skills course. I refer to the "application" course as
>> the "target course." I encourage students to apply strategies to
>> any or all of their courses, but I require that they apply all
>> strategies to the "target course." The portfolio consists of
>> samples of how the student applied time management, comprehension,
>> notetaking, mapping, and exam preparation among other strategies to
>> the "target course." I have found that this approach helps students
>> to see how effective this "full court press" of study strategies can
>> be in succeeding academically.
>> Please contact me with any additional questions.
>> Best regards,
>> Helene
>>
>> --
>> Helene Selco, Ph.D.
>> Cornell University
>> Learning Strategies Center
>> 420 CCC
>> 607.255.6310
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